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` Letters Patent No. 73,155, dated January 7, 1868.

CAR-SEAT LOCK.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Be it known that we, G. lV. R. BAYLEY :1ndJOHN McCLUSKEY, of Algiers,.in the parish of Orleans, and State ofLouisiana,'have invented a new and useful Improvement in LockingCar-Seats; and we do hereby declare that the following is a. full,clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable otliers skilledin the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in locking and unlocking thereversible seat-backs of railroad passenger-cars, whereby all thescat-backs on one side of the car can be locked or unlockedsimultaneously.

It consists' of abar running along the side, from near one end of thecar to the other, having t\ vo pins to each car-scat. The seat-back hason its side two groovesor metal lips, or slotted bars, and by turningthe bar on which the pins are carried, the pins catch on or inthe lip orgroove or slotted bar, and lock the seat-back in any desired position.In the accompanying drawings- I Figure l is a. side view of our improveddevice for' locking and unlocking cnr-seats.

Figure 2 is an end vien thereof, and I Figure 3 is a. separate view ofthe slotted bar, which may be used in substitution for the lip upon theend of the seat-back next the side of the car.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the bar of metal attached to the' side -X of the car, just abovethe l'evel of the seats B, and extends past all the seats on one side ofthe car, to which it is secured, at suitable intervals, by half caps, orany other suitable device. At certain intervals along thebar,ldetermincd as hereinafter mentioned, by the situation of' thereversible seat-backs in both positions, pins, a, are inserted in thebar, which may be straight or curved, as seen at a, iig. 2, or hooked.On'the end of the seat-back next the side of the car, is a groove orslotted bar, D, tig. 3, or lip E, tig. 1, and the intervals at which thepins a are set upon the bar, lare so adjusted that the pins shall catchin the grooves or slotted bars D, or on the lips E. Eye-bolts may besubstituted for the pins a, on the bar A, sitting into hooks upon theseat-back, substituted fof the lip, or grooved or slotted bar.

The bar A is operated by a key, a quarter turn whereof removes the pinsa from the grooves, slots, or lips, unlocking the seats, or sets thepins therein, locking the same. cap F over the head tted'to receive thekey, by a padlock, G, or other suitable means.

Having thus described our invention, what ive claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The bar A and pins a, disposed on said bar A, substantially asabovedescribed, in combination with the lips E, or their equivalent, inmanner and for the purpose substantially as above set forth auddescribed.

2. The said bar A, in combination with the halt' cap F and padlock G, inmanner and for the purposes above set forth and described.

The abov specification et' our invention signed by us, this 6th day ofJuly, 1867.

' G. w. R; BAYLEY,

'JOHN McCLUSKEY.

vWitnesses:

JAMES NELSON, B. J. HUDnn.-

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